Allen and I worked for several years together in the second coming of Pere Ubu before we both decided to quit at around the same time. I carried on playing  and running this label; Allen became a commercial airline pilot and designed simulator stress tests for other airline pilots. Now retirement has brought him back to music and modular synthesis and - in this unusual recording - he arrives at a hybrid musical form that is more or less without precedent: discursive, digressive and disrupted by generic and emotional shifts; a music in which real-world sounds and real-world instruments occasionally argue with - or complement - the electronic current; theres agon here - and narrative. Narrative. Narrative. Narrative. For a largely abstract and instrumental recording, thats a real achievement. These pieces  and the interactions between them  cumulatively capture an historical moment - allusively and elusively, out of the corner of their eyes - and, I dare to say, thats not just an achievement, its a great achievement.<p>

The subscription/art edition comes with a slim, illustrated, book - numbered and signed - of some of Allens music-related short stories, (originally published in the ReR Quarterlies and Cleveland Plain Dealer).<p>